Kurdish fighters dislodge IS from western countryside of Syria's Kobane

The Kurdish fighters have seized control from the Islamic State (IS) group of the entire western countryside of a predominantly Kurdish city in northern Syria, a monitoring group reported Friday.

The People's Protection Units (YPG) has succeeded to dislodge the IS militants from the entire western countryside of Ayn al-Arab, or Kobane, all the way to the towns of Shioukh Fuqani and Tahtani, which are already under the YPG control, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

The Observatory said that intense clashes have been continuing since Thursday evening between the IS and the YPG in the countryside of Syria's al-Raqqa province, the de facto capital of the IS in Syria.

Eight IS militants were killed during the night-long clashes in al-Raqqa, it added.

Last month, the Kurdish fighters managed to fully route the IS out of Ayn al-Arab, and continued to haunt those extremists in the countryside of that predominantly Kurdish city, near the Turkish borders. Endit